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It's been a little over a month since my last entry and I've had a few days to decompress from the craziness of finals, so I guess it's time to write about it.
School stuff
JAPN 315 (Language in Japanese Society): I got "A"s on the first two tests and I'm sure I did okay on the third (and last) test which doubled as the final. The project I had to do turned out interesting... as usual I did it at the very last second and I got my material from people on AIM, including people I haven't even met in person! Many thanks and apologies.
JAPN 410 (Modern Japanese Literature): Er... I'll be happy to get a "B" in this class. This was surprisingly tough; I got high "C"s on the first quiz and midterm (as did almost everyone else), and I have no idea what I got on the second (and last) quiz. I'm sure I did well on the final, and I did surprisingly well on the paper ("B+"), especially when Yokota-sensei was saying how she was "grading strict" and that some weren't "following the paper instructions"... not to mention that I turned mine in a day late! She kept delaying the due date of the paper and I was always just putting it in the back of my mind. On the day I thought it might be due, we had an insane amount of homework (which meant to me that it couldn't have possibly been on that day), and I thought she said we could turn it in the next day anyway. Everything turned out okay, though. I did most of the homework and participated fairly often, so that has to mean something, right?
JAPN 300A (Advanced Japanese): The final was a little harder than I thought (especially that first question)... maybe I should have studied for more than a minute. I was more worried about the presentation I still had to do; I knew mine would be a bit long with the DVD and I didn't want to use up any more time for the final than I had to, so I tried to go through it as fast as I could. I'm still disappointed that I still had to read off my script - much more than I thought, anyway. I tried to at least memorize the first paragraph, the last paragraph, and the first few sentences of each paragraph (to give the illusion that I memorized it), but I couldn't even do that. My hat's off to the beauteous Pearl for the best presentation.
Fun stuff
Bujingai: It's the game Gackt helped make. I found the US and JP versions very cheap on eBay so I grabbed them (if I was crazy I'd get the European version too, but I won't). It looks and plays great! It comes with lots of extras like unlockable Gackt interviews and stuff. I'm pleasantly surprised that the US version not only kept them but subtitled the videos as well!
Tom Yum Goong: I had a hard time believing that anything could top Ong Bak unless it was by Tony Jaa himself. WOW. It's better in every way in terms of story, scope, and of course action.
A Love To Kill (aka "This Love I Want to Kill," aka "A Love of Death"): Whatever you call it, it's pretty spectacular. This of course stars Bi, who I revere about as much as Gackt. And what do you know - he's also a singer. I've only seen the first three episodes so I won't be reading a certain someone's LJ for a while...
Firefox 1.5: This browser is my favorite new toy. Even if it didn't load pages faster than Internet Explorer and didn't prevent your computer's security from being compromised unlike IE (which it does), I'd still use it. I've got so many extensions for Firefox that let me do so many cool and useful features (that IE could never do) it's insane. You know, I've always thought obsessing over cars was pretty stupid, but if it's because of the customizability (like with Firefox), I can understand.
I still need to decompress until the first day of school next year, whenever that is. With any luck a friend from high school will be dropping by (he damn well better), so I gotta have my days open...
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